Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.